Doris Justison Nygard
Doris Justison Nygard was born January 4, 1920 to Harry Justison and Myrtle Kilvington Justison in Trenton, New Jersey. Doris’ mother passed away during childbirth when Doris was 5 years old. She was raised by her father's sister - Aunt Ada Larkin. Doris graduated from Springfield High School in 1937 after having been secretary of her class for four years. Doris was accepted into Bryn Mawr College but her father passed away that year and she had to go to work.
Doris eloped with Jack Nygard and they were married in Delaware on October 9, 1940. While Jack was in the Army during World War II, Doris lived with Ada at 1917 Pershing Ave, Morton, Pa. She welcomed her first son - Jackie Nygard in September 1942. She worked at Philadelphia Electric as a secretary until the end of the war.
After the war, the Nygard’s moved to Jack's parents on a farm on Kedron Avenue in Folsom. Later they got their own apartment on the 3rd floor of a Victorian house on President Ave in Rutledge that was rented by the Bateman family that she had babysat for as a teenager in Springfield. In October 1947 the Nygard’s moved into 371 W. 21st street in Upland where she would reside until her death on 03/03/1979. The Bateman's moved in next door at 369.
On the day after Thanksgiving in 1957 her son Greg contacted Meningitis which led to water on the brain and the high fever ultimately left him a victim of cerebral palsy. Doris began to work at the CP clinic in Chester Pa. from 1963 until 1976. Gregory was placed at Hamburg Center in 1961 and remained there until his death in 1987. Doris and the family visited Greg often. A remarkable thing about Greg was that he was born on Valentine's Day and his birthmark was a heart on his left thigh. Doris must have known that she was about to die because she filled out a birthday card for Greg enlisted a friend (still unknown to the family) to mail it to him a year after her death.
